[Solved] Laravel PDOException could not find driver

Hello Guys, How are you all? Hope You all Are Fine. Today I am facing the following error Laravel PDOException could not find driver in laravel. So Here I am Explain to you all the possible solutions here.

Without wasting your time, Let’s start This Article to Solve This Error.

How Laravel PDOException could not find driver Error Occurs ?

I have Connected my MySQL database with Laravel and now I am facing the following error.

php artisan migrate:refresh --seed
    [Illuminate\Database\QueryException]
could not find driver (SQL: select * from usa_client where type = 'table ' and name = migrations)
 [Doctrine\DBAL\Driver\PDOException]
could not find driver
 [PDOException]
could not find driver

How To Solve Laravel PDOException could not find driver Error ?

Solution 1: missing dependency

Here you have a missing dependency If you can, run.

composer update

composer require doctrine/dbal

Solution 2: Edit your php.ini 

Here you should install PDO on your server. And Edit your php.ini Find and uncomment the following line (remove the ; character)

;extension=pdo_mysql.so //uncomment this line just remove ;

Then, restart your Apache server

Solution 3: Run sudo apt-get install php7.0-mysql

Running sudo apt-get install php7.0-mysql fixed it for me.

Solution 4: Install database first

First of all, run this command

sudo apt-get update

If you are using Mysql Database

sudo apt-get install php-mysql

If you are using PostgreSQL Database

sudo apt-get install php-pgsql

Then

php artisan migrate

Summary

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